á The Final Exam will occur on Tuesday, 6/9/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for all class lectures this quarter. You will be responsible for Chapters 10-16 in the textbook.
á Chapter 16: 1, 7, 8, 9
á Exam 5 will occur on Monday, 6/1/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 5/20 and 5/27. You will be responsible for Chapter 15.
á Chapter 15: 1, 3, 11, 13b-c, 14, 16, 22 (problem 8 only), 23 (problem 1 only), 24 (problem 1 only), 25 (problem 1 only)
I can take a maximum of 4 people as undergraduate TAs for this class next year.
If you will still be here for both Winter and Spring quarters of 2010, and you are interested in being an undergraduate TA for this class, please come by and see me. Feel free to call or email me to set up an appointment.
Important things to know are these.
á Class times and the class structure will be the same next year as it is this year (with the possible exception that exams will be on Wednesdays rather than Mondays).
á Skills for being an undergraduate TA include both understanding the class materials and being able to explain them to others.
á Undergraduate TAs are expected to attend all class lectures, hold their own section, hold 3 hours a week of office hours, grade their section's homework, and help grade exams.
á Although it's a lot of work, being an undergraduate TA has a number of advantages: you learn the materials much better, you develop skill as an instructor, you develop a nice relationship with your fellow TA's and you get a letter of recommendation from me which is useful for your future. Plus, at the end of the year, I take everyone out for a celebratory TA dinner.
á Class credit (I believe Psych 497) is available for being an undergraduate TA.
á Please talk to any of the current undergraduate TAs to get the best sense of what the job is like.
á Chapter 13: 5, 11, 12
á Chapter 14: 1, 2, 3, 7. For problems 2 and 3, compute 95% confidence intervals around the Pearson r and the Pearson r-squared. NOTE: As indicated in the errata sheet, the book section on confidence intervals around Pearson r's (p. 460) is wrong and you should cross it out. I'll go over the correct method in class before the relevant HW problems are due.
á IMPORTANT NOTE: Download a corrected handout about the correct confidence interval method from here.
á Exam 4 will occur on Monday, 5/18/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 5/6, 5/11, and 5/13. You will be responsible for all of Chapter 13 (it doesn't make sense to try to hold you responsible for only the last part of it since it's so integrated) and all of Chapter 14.
á Chapter 14
á Chapter 13: 5, 11, 12
á Chapter 14: 1, 2, 3, 7. For problems 2 and 3, compute 95% confidence intervals around the Pearson r and the Pearson r-squared. NOTE: As indicated in the errata sheet, the book section on confidence intervals around Pearson r's (p. 460) is wrong and you should cross it out. I'll go over the correct method in class before the relevant HW problems are due. You should also download a handout about the correct method from here.
á Chapter 15: 1, 3, 11, 13b-c, 14, 16, 22 (problem 8 only), 23 (problem 1 only), 24 (problem 1 only), 25 (problem 1 only)
á Chapter 13; concentrate on section beginning on p. 413
á Exam 3 will occur on Monday, 5/4/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 4/22, 4/27, and 4/29. You will be responsible for Chapter 12 and for Chapter 13 through p. 413 (i.e., up to, but not including, the "Multiple Observations per Subject per Condition" section.
á Chapter 12: 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11: (NOTE: You did parts of this for HW#2. To avoid confusion, a reasonable organizational strategy would be to do the whole problem over again (copying the parts you've already done from HW#3)
á Chapter 13: 1, 4, 9 (NOTE: for Part e, the deviations should be: subj 1 add 1.0; subj 2 add 2.0; subj 3 leave alone; subj 4 subtract 3.0). NOTE: When asked to compute confidence intervals, please compute both real confidence intervals and within-subjects confidence intervals, as described in class today.
á Chapter 12: 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11: (NOTE: You did parts of this for HW#2. To avoid confusion, a reasonable organizational strategy would be to do the whole problem over again (copying the parts you've already done from HW#3)
á Chapter 13: 1, 4, 5, 9 (NOTE: for Part e, the deviations should be: subj 1 add 1.0; subj 2 add 2.0; subj 3 leave alone; subj 4 subtract 3.0), 11, 12
á Chapters 12 and 13
á Finish Chapter 12
á Exam 5 will occur on Monday, 4/20/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 4/8, 4/13, and 4/15. You will be responsible for Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 through p. 363 in the textbook.
á G. Loftus will be giving a Psychology Department colloquium today, Wednesday 4/15, at 3:30 in Physics & Astronomy A114. Title: "Hypothesis testing in the social sciences: Curse or abomination?" You are all cordially invited.
á Chapter 11: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
á Chapter 12: 2a, 8b
á Chapters 11 and 12
á Chapter 11: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
á Chapter 12: 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11
Zach Ernst: AC Fri 9:30 CHL 101
Ofc Hrs: MW, 10:30-12:00
email: zernst@u.washington.edu
Yu Ding: AA Fri 8:30 CHL 025
Ofc Hrs: W 1:00-4:00
email: dingy@u.washington.edu
Andy Klatt: AB Fri 8:30 PAR 112
Ofc Hrs: W 11:30-1:30; F 11:30-12:20
email: klatta@u.washington.edu
Tim Kelly: AD Fri 9:30 DEN 311
Ofc Hrs: M 10:30-11:20; 9:30-11:20
email: vnv00@u.washington.edu
Courtney Chase: AE Fri 9:30 BLM 211
Ofc Hrs: MWF 10:30-11:30 in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) coffee
shop
email: chasen8@u.washington.edu
á Exam 5 will occur on Monday, 4/6/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 3/30 and 4/1. You will be responsible for Chapters 9 and 10 in the textbook.
á Textbook errata sheet. Be sure to go through the text and actually implement the errata or you will be confused down the road.
á Class syllabus NOTE: This has been updated as of 3/30 at noon.
á Chapter 10 (NOTE: in all problems where you are comparing two means, compute the 95% confidence interval around the mean difference): 1, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16
á Chapter 10 (NOTE: in all problems where you are comparing two means, compute the 95% confidence interval around the mean difference): 1, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16
á The structure of Psychology 318 is identical to the strucure of Psychology 317. This same web site will be used. We will start right in on Monday, 3/30/09 with the Chapter-10 material. The first homework will be due on Thursday, 4/2/09, and the first exam will be Monday, 4/6/09.
á Chapter 10
á The Final Exam will occur on Tuesday, 3/17/09 at 8:30 AM in our usual classroom. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it. Note, however, that it is about 25% longer than the midterms.
á You will be responsible for all class lectures throughout the course, and for the book, Chapters 0-9 and Appendixes A-C.
á Chapter 9
á Chapter 8: 5, 10 (Additional work for Question 10: For part a: compute 90% confidence intervals around the Seattle and Portland means and for part c: what would the 90% confidence intervals be around the Seattle and Portland means with the sample sizes that you choose?)
á Chapter 9: 3, 4, 6
A recurring irritation and source of confusion is that the z-tables in the back of the book don't contain negative z's even though you frequently have to compute F(z) where z is negative.
There is nothing mysterious about the lack of negative z values in the table; the publisher just omitted them to save space. You can compute F(z)'s for negative z's in two ways.
á As mentioned in class, you can use the simple formula, F(-z) = 1-F(z).
á I've prepared, using Excel, a version of the tables that includes negative z's, which you can download from here.
á Exam 5 will occur on Monday, 3/9/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 2/23, 2/25, and 3/. You will be responsible for all textbook material in Chapter 6 from p. 174 to the end of the chapter, including the pp. 171-172 section on "Normal approximation to the binomial". You will also be responsible for Chapter 7 and Chapter 8, except you won't be tested on anything having to do with power in a two-group situation.
á Chapter 6: 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 21
á Chapter 7: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14. Also, compute 95% confidence intervals around the summary score(s) that you use in Problems 3, 6, and 7
á Chapter 8: 2
á Chapters 7-9
á Zach will provide a tutorial applying Excel to statistics problems on Friday during section time. He will do it twice, at 8:30 and 9:30. Please go to Guthrie Room 211 to attend. Do not go to your regular section room (unless it's Guthrie 211); there won't be anyone there this week.
á Courtney has decided to be a bit more lenient with this question. If you got marked down for an answer that you think is correct but wasn't our answer, please take your exam to Courtney and you can negotiate with her for possible extra points. You can see her during her office hours or at section this Friday, or in class next week.
á Chapter 6: 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 21
á Chapter 7: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14
á Chapter 8: 2, 5, 10 (Additional work for Question 10: For part a: compute 90% confidence intervals around the Seattle and Portland means and for part c: what would the 90% confidence intervals be around the Seattle and Portland means with the sample sizes that you choose?)
á Chapter 9: 2, 3, 4, 6
á Chapters 6 and 7
á Exam 3 will occur on Monday, 2/23/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 2/11, and 2/18. You will be responsible for all textbook material in Chapters 4 and 5, and Chapter 6 through p. 174 except for the pp. 171-172 section on "Normal approximation to the binomial". NOTE: HW problem 21b from Chapter 6 was supposed to have refered to the N=10 case only, which is easily doable with the binomial (even though it's a Chapter-6 problem). You will not be responsible for the normal approximation to the binomial for Exam 4.
á Chapter 4: 14, 17, 20, 24
á Chapter 5: 1 (list 5 situations only), 2, 4, 8, 10
á Chapter 6: 1a, 15a-c, 21a-b
á Chapters 5 and 6
á Chapter 4: 14, 17, 20, 24
á Chapter 5: 1 (list 5 situations only), 2, 4, 8, 10
á Chapter 6: 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 21
á Chapter 4
á Exam 3 will occur on Monday, 2/9/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 1/28, 2/2, and 2/4. You will be responsible for all textbook material in Chapter 2 from page 75 through the end of the chapter, for all of Chapter 3, and for Appendixes A, B, and C.
á Chapter 2: 10, 11
á Chapter 3: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9
á Chapter 4: 1, 2, 4, 6
á Chapters 3-4
á Appendixes A-C
á Chapter 2
á Exam 2 will occur on Monday, 1/26/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 1/14 and 1/21. You will be responsible for all textbook material in Chapter 1 from page 35 on, and Chapter 2 from the start of the chapter through page 75.
á Chapter 1: 4b(8)- 4b(15), 6b-6e, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21
á Chapter 2: 1, 3, 4, 8, 15
á Please check this web site at least daily!
á Our class now has a class mailbox. It is labeled "Psychology 317"and is in the Guthrie Hall mail room, in the mailboxes that you will be facing as you walk into the room, near the bottom right-hand corner. Please leave your completed HW assignments there. Please remember to staple your homework pages together and to include your newly assigned section designation (AA, AB, etc.) on your homework along with your TA's name
á Chapter 2
á Courtney has changed her office hours to: Wed 12:00-1:30 and Fri 11:30-1:00, both in Gould Coffee Shop.
á Chapter 1: 4b(8)- 4b(15), 6b-6e, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21
á Chapter 2: 1, 3, 4, 8,10, 11, 15
á Chapter 3: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9
á Chapter 1
á Section assignments are to be found here. If for some reason you cannot possibly make the section you're assigned to, please contact me at gloftus@u.washington.edu and I will change your assignment.
á Exam 1 will occur on Monday, 1/12/09. You will have the full two hours of class time to do it.
á You will be responsible for class lectures given 1/5 and 1/7. You will be responsible for all textbook material in the Preface, the Introduction Chapter, and Chapter 1 from the start of the chapter through page 35.
á Remember the exam is open-book and open-note. You may also use any calculation instrument you'd like including a laptop computer.
á Please do not engage in any talking, phoning, emailing, IMing, hand-gesturing, smoke-signaling, or any other form of communication with anyone except a TA during the exam.
á An exam answer key, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, will be posted here on the web site shortly after the exam is over.
á You can view the Winter quarter schedule at a glance here. Note that it's page 4 of the class syllabus. Bookmarking it may be useful.
á Textbook errata sheet. Be sure to go through the text and actually implement the errata or you will be confused down the road.
á Chapter 1:1-3, 4a, 4b(1)-4b(7), 6a
á NOTE: An answer key, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, will be posted here on the web site shortly after the homework is due.
á Preface, Introduction Chapter, and Chapter 1
á Chapter 1:1-4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21
á Please ignore the section that the UW assigned to you. To equalize the number of people in each section, we will assign you to sections. Section assignments will be posted on 1/7/2009
á I get 100 - 200 email messages a day and it takes me a very long time to go through them. So I'd like you to be circumspect in emailing questions to me. If you have a question that needs an urgent answer, then phone me, stop by, or email me. However, if the question can be answered by a TA, then please direct it to your TA or any TA. If the question can wait, ask someone during ofice hours, or raise the question in section or in class. Thanks
á This site contains information that will be relevant to Psychology 317-317 during Winter and Spring Quarters of 2009 (readings, homework, etc). Please bookmark it and check it at least once per day. Newest information will be at the top of the page, but I will retain all information throughout the quarter.